On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:54:51PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I just installed a 256M ram chip in my server. This gives me 256M of > ram in bank1, 128M in bank2, and 128M ram in bank 3, which should > compute to a total of 512M of ram. > However, in my dmesg output, I get: > 383MB LOWMEM available. Hi, Is this a server board or a standard motherboard. My Intel server board requires matched pairs of sdram installed in banks 1/2 3/4 and 5/6 respectively as it uses interleaving. If the option exists in the bios, you can try turning off memory interleaving. Even better, try moving the 256mb chip into bank 3 and match the 2 128mb chips into banks 1 and 2. Hth, Shane -- Shane Wegner http://www.cm.nu/~shane/
